He attended the university of the pacific on a basketball scholarship and went on to earn a master of fine arts in creative writing at san diego state university. All though sticky is very passionate about the game and playing ball, he in a way has an alterego that is tested later on in the book. The bulletinsticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. Audio book sample courtesy of penguin random house audio. The setting in this novel takes place in a newly built local rec center named the lincoln rec. His dads mexican and his moms white, and he writes a lot about mixed race kids.
Hes 6 3 tall, with a handsome chiseled and tan face and a few zig zag scars, and his home is the street. Sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call ho. Seventeenyearold sticky has been shuffled to different foster homes and living on the streets since his mothers death. Though travis reichard is the protagonists given name, his moniker is sticky. The protagonist sticky is a boy from the slums of california who spent a large portion of his life in an. The bulletin sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Graysons performance was also very good, as were all of the actors. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. A sad, sweet book about a young foster kid growing up on basketball and the. Sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street and an outer shell so tough that no one will take him in. He suffers from obsessivecompulsive disorder, which embarrasses him, so he just cant help doing certain things over and over until they feel right.
When you are in a book slump, you need something exciting to really grab you and force you to plow through with the excitement and enthusiasm you are struggling to find in other books. The book is a gritty comingofage story of a troubled throwaway named sticky his real name. Dawnbreaker and five picture books including last stop on market street and love. He played basketball in college at the university of the pacific where he studied psychology and. We have read through and i am sure that i will going to read once again once again in the future. Matt received his mfa in creative writing from san diego state university and his ba from the university of the pacific, where he attended school. It stars and1 mixtape team member grayson boucher, a. This is not the first book i read from this author, and i have to say im impressed by his writing.
Ball dont lie has 5 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Bulletin of the center for childrens books, volume 59, number 2, october. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. Ball dont lie is a book that will greatly appeal to its demographic. The film premiered at the 2008 tribeca film festival. Book fairs scholastic education trade publishing international about scholastic customer service contact us. Ball don t lie presents a story so unique both in the main character and in the form of narrative, that i found myself wishing for the book not to end. Ball dont lie is a 2008 film directed by brin hill. Once you get past the basketball details if youre not a sports person, that is, you will find an amazing, interesting, and absorbing story of a boy who is working hard at the only chance hes got to beat the odds. It was great seeing some notable actors playing different roles then you are used to seeing them in.
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